Introduction: "The good, the bad, and the ugly": transnational perspectives on the extralegal field / Abel Polese, Alessandra Russo, and Francesco Strazzari. Part 1 The social morality of crime : Conversations bamakoises in time of crisis: criminalisation of everday life and state formation in mali / Giovanni Zanoletti -- The criminalization of informal practices in the Danube delta: how and why / Giulia Prelz Oltramonti an dMihnea Tanasescu -- Use of language in blurring the lines between legality and illegality / Gulzat Botoeva -- Mothers as pot legalizers: from illegality to morality in medical use of cannabis in Latin America / Luis Rivera Vélez -- Negotiated prohibition: the social organisation of illegal gambling in Ukraine / Anna Markovska and Yuliya Zabyelina -- Coping mechanisms of Ukrainian patients: bribes, gifts, donations, and connections / Olena Levenets, Tetiana Stepurko, Milena Pavlova, and Wim Groot -- Collateral damage of global governance on the local level: an analysis of fragmented international regimes in the Brazilian Amazon / Regine Schönenberg. Part 2 Opposition of "us" against "them" : Informality and the revolutionary state in Russia / Joseph Nicholson -- Informality, criminality, and local autonomy in the Balkans: a geographic-based analysis of state confines / Régis Darques -- "Stealing from the state is not stealing really, it is a national sport": a study of informal economic practices and low-level corruption in Hungary / Fanni Gyurko -- Cross-border smuggling in North Niger: the morality of the informal and the construction of a hybrid order / Luca Raineri -- Informality and state-society relations in post-2011 Tunisia / Ruth Hanau Santini and Stefano Pontiggia -- Informal communities and cannabis regulation in the Emerald Triangle / Liza Candidi. Part 3 Informality and resistance : The first Moldovan students in Romania (1990-1991): informal traders or agents of change? / Petru Negură -- Nothing to lose: the power of subtle forms of resistance in an immigration detention centre / Annalisa Lendaro -- Out of the rubble: affective infrapolitics in Bangkok / Jaime Moreno-Tejada -- Informal governance on cryptomarkets for illicit drugs / Meropi Tzanetakis. Index.
Summary:
This volume explores the continuous line from informal and unrecorded practices all the way up to illegal and criminal practices, performed and reproduced by both individuals and organizations. The authors classify them as alternative, subversive forms of governance performed by marginal (and often invisible) peripheral actors. The volume studies how the informal and the extra-legal unfold transnationally and, in particular, how and why they have been progressively criminalized and integrated into the construction of global and local dangerhoods; how the above-mentioned phenomena are embedded into a post-liberal security order; and whether they shape new states of exception and generate moral panic whose ultimate function is regulatory, disciplinary and one of crafting practices of political ordering.
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